[EVENT] In Nightmares - Printable Version

The small fox said not a word, but simply stood in the doorway looking out at the crowd of gembound that had gathered. They spoke of dreams and visions, but their fur was not in the same state as her. She had thought the dreams to be a side-effect of her unexpected hibernation, but if it was shared by the living then it had to be something more.

Had this room always been so dark?

Miru's ears flattened as a surreal scream interrupted the impromptu meeting, hackles raised in silence as her crimson eyes darted around. It hadn't come from within the building, or at least she didn't think it did. The only thing of interest here was her discarded shell. Another glance outside- the others had heard it too and the smaller of the two cats was lashing out rather severely to it.

Lights. In this dim space that wasn't a bad idea. Perhaps she could assist in fighting back the darkness.

"I wonder." she spoke aloud in response to the shaken creature's question, stepping out lest they see her and believe her to be responsible. Beneath her fur a glow was beginning to manifest- soft and blue in contrast to the fur's natural red hue. The white fur of her underbelly barely did anything to stop the magically produced rays, casting a pool of light below her as though she tread upon a watery surface. "Could the eyes of death have followed us from the dreamscape?"

Though my thoughts are my own
"This is my greatest tool to hone"
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OF WISPS AND WHISPERS

ORION - In Nightmares

As Reign's spell backfired, there was a strong sense of wrongness. It was as if bad luck hovered, as if something controlled his destiny. He would fail. There was no way to win this. He was trapped; he would be ended, here, followed and hunted to the ends of the caves until at last he fell in shadows, nothing but fear in his heart, alone in the cold. A soft laughter echoed in his ears, an icy breath, mocking to its core.

The ruins themselves echoed strangely with Dread's roar, the sound careening off into the rubble and fading, seeming to distort, and change, like a dozen voices wailing into slow silence. The light from Zevruu's orb seemed oddly muffled--the light itself bright enough, yet the shadows clung to it, creeping in, so that the bright pool ended abruptly only a few meters to either side. It would take effort to remain in the light, and not to touch the surrounding shadows. Miru's blue glow, too, seemed to stop abruptly not far from her. The shadows almost seemed to be giving off their own not-light, draining the magical glow at its edges.

Reseda, however, would see none of this--not at first. To her, the ruins seemed to grow darker, and darker; they grew towering and ominous. She went inside, wandering the crumbled roads, peering into pitch-black doorways, an unfamiliar fear mounting in her. A shuffle came from just behind her, and a sharp pain at the back of her neck. At the same time--and yet separately, as if in another room, another window, another reality--she saw a dark figure far ahead, unaware of her presence. And a third reality: Reseda fleeing, the rest left behind, silent as they fell. Strange, stray ghost-lights flickered all around.

She awoke to reality.

From the day we arrive on this planetAnd blinking, step into the sun

As he used his Magick, things seemed to go wrong. He shuddered, cringing, wanting to run and run and run, but refusing to. His head twisted, surveying the area, as a laugh echoed in his ears, but he couldn't see where it came from.

The other cat spoke, first, asking if someone was out there. Then was the fox, and its question made the fur on his mantle stand on end. But, surely not? It was only a dream after, even if it were a shared dream. The massive, large winged lizard boomed his own questions, and Reign said "Perhaps it does." there was no reason to discount it.

Something was very wrong here, the lights were muffled, the sounds were wrong. The cheetah's ears twitched, and his tail flicked and, getting an idea, his crown gleamed as a blast of thunder boomed.

@Greed @Zevruu @Dread @Miru @Aries

"Speech looks like this."
Thoughts look like this.

There's more to see than can ever be seenMore to do than can ever be done

"Whether such eyes are literal or figurative, the hunter in dreams does seem to have set its gaze upon us." she responded absentmindedly to the fierce winged lizard of Dread, gazing downward at the pool of blue light around her. She had woken up, right? Something about her magic wasn't quite right. Something about the world around them wasn't quite right.

Usually a predator would back off as its targets gathered in enough number to fight back. Are even the six of us so small as to be no threat?"

Not only that but whatever encroached upon them seemed to be aligned with the darkness itself. Her light and the light of the smaller feline held it just barely at bay and laughter in the emptiness seemed to mock their feeble attempts.

It is indifferent to our efforts. "We have to stick together, move away as one."

She wasn't going to fall so soon after awakening to the world again! With a deep breath the fox willed as much magic as possible into her stone. Theirs would be the glow to push back the darkness!

Indeed the blue glow did increase in intensity, but like a shattering bulb the spell broke with an audible pop, sending Miru hurling to the ground as the backlash hit her like being punched in the gut.

The light was gone and with it her protection against the unnatural shadow.

Though my thoughts are my own
"This is my greatest tool to hone"
Tags: @Greed @Dread